Author: Anon - "Billy"
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782890556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Further letters from the Front, continuing on from “A Sunny Subaltern, Billy’s Letters from Flanders.” The young Canadian officer continues his adventures, in and out of the trenches. He begins with a quick note to his mother to confirm that he was recovering well from shrapnel wounds in London. After a brief convalescence, he is back in the thick of the fighting, sending one letter to his mother postmarked “In the Field (of mud)”. His naiveté of the first volume is still evident, but is beginning to wane as he becomes almost fatalist in tone toward the later part of the book. In hospital once again with appendicitis, he emotionally recounts his meetings with the many casualties with him, including those gassed and blinded. His letters are packed with the details of his service such as dug-outs, observation posts and the “dreary ditch known as ‘The line.’”. His letters offer a fascinating insight into the First World War at the Front. Collected and posthumously published by his mother, they make for a gripping and atmospheric read. Author — Anon “Billy” Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1917. Original Page Count – 121 pages.
Author: Anon - "Billy"
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782890564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 69
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An engaging collection of letters from a young Canadian officer, native to Toronto. His letters begin in late 1915 on the journey across the Atlantic to the European battlefield. He is filled with worldly-wonder and naiveté as he encounters figures as diverse as Colonels to French peasants, and recounts the daily trials and tribulations of the soldiers life in Belgium with wit; for example, he describes his batman as “a soldier paid by you to be absent when you want him.” Particularly interesting is the tone of the narrative in which he attempts to educate his mother of life in the army, and in tone, cheerful beyond modern cyncism. Collected and posthumously published by his mother, they make for a gripping and atmospheric read. Author — Anon “Billy” Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1916. Original Page Count – 175 pages.
Author: Billy Gray
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: Wilmington Institute Free Library (Wilmington, Del.)
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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